Abstract
This paper focuses on the alternative choice between literal and metonymic expressions for the concept government from an onomasiological point of view. With the help of mixed-effects logistic regression analyses, this study models the binary designations for government with the data from a self-built corpus of texts from newspapers and online forums in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese. Mixed-effects models also provide a way of accommodating the random-effect factors such as the verbs in the data. The statistical results unveil that the choice of literal vs. metonymic designations is a result of the complex interplay of a number of conceptual, grammatical/discursive and lectal factors and no single decisive factor would determine people’s onomasiological choice.
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